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• Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

  Robert Burns

  Nursing, Wrath, Sulky

  Robert Burns, “Tam O' Shanter”

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• Humid seal of soft affections,
  Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
  Dearest tie of young connections,
  Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

  Robert Burns

  Kissing, Ties, Snow

  Robert Burns (1859). “The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns”, p.186

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• A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

  Robert Burns

  Men, Knights, Might

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1844). “The Works of Robert Burns: With Dr. Currie's Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay on His Genius and Character”, p.134

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• Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

  Robert Burns

  Fate, Weight, Ruins

  Robert Burns (1859). “The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns”, p.79

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• Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

  Robert Burns

  Summer, Play, Crystals

  Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.169

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• [Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

  Robert Burns

  Song, Scottish, Modern

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• Great for good, or great for evil.

  Robert Burns

  Evil, Frailty

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• If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.

  Robert Burns

  Care, Ifs

  Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.152

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• I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

  Robert Burns

  Feelings, Hazards, Sin

  'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 6

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• I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

  Robert Burns

  Contentment, Body, Care

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1848). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.78

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• When chill November's surly blast
  Made fields and forests bare.

  Robert Burns

  Fields, Forests, November

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• The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

  Robert Burns

  Lakes, Jumping, Sea

  Robert Burns (1868). “Poems, Songs, and Letters: Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns”, p.98

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• 'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

  Robert Burns

  World, Thee

  Robert Burns (1852). “The life and works of Robert Burns”, p.193

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• Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

  Robert Burns

  Weed, Dark, Years

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Gilbert Burns (1820). “The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.265

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• The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

  Robert Burns

  Wise, Learning, Flames

  Robert Burns (1859). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs and Correspondence”, p.132

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• Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes,
  And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays;
  Come let us spend the lightsome days
  In the birks of Aberfeldy.

  Robert Burns

  Summer, Play, Blink

  Robert Burns, Robert P. Irvine (2013). “Selected Poems and Songs”, p.145, Oxford University Press

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• An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

  Robert Burns

  Atheist, Laughter, Laughing

  'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 9

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• Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

  Robert Burns

  Song, Sweet, Rivers

  'Afton Water' (1792)

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• Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

  Robert Burns

  Society, Morality, Bane

  Robert Burns (1859). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs and Correspondence”, p.124

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• Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.

  Robert Burns

  Sweet, Larks, Complaining

  Robert Burns (2010). “The Canongate Burns”, p.860, Canongate Books

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• In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

  Robert Burns

  Sorrow, Prison, Couches

  Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.88

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• Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

  Robert Burns

  Dream, Spring, Ambition

  Robert Burns (1901). “The Poetry of Robert Burns: Posthumous pieces”

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• Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced

  Robert Burns

  Mean, Term, Happens

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• For gold the merchant ploughs the main,
  The farmer ploughs the manor.

  Robert Burns

  Gold, Farmers, Merchants

  Robert Burns (1823). “The Songs and Ballads of Robert Burns: Including Ten Never Before Published”, p.125

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• Such is the fate of simple Bard,
  On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

  Robert Burns

  Ocean, Fate, Simple

  Robert Burns, Gilbert BURNS, Allan Cunningham (1840). “The Works of Robert Burns. With Life by Allan Cunningham, and Notes by Gilbert Burns [and Others], Etc. [With a Portrait and Facsimiles.]”, p.239

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